Impactful Art Quotes

I try to make the kinds of things I want to see out there in the world, and hope they end up resonating with other people too.

I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people.

I can never stop thanking God because my music influences people in their respective lives.

I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like 'Clockers' to playing a doctor on 'ER' to doing '8 Mile,' where I'm in charge of the hip-hop battles, I think it affects all kinds of different audiences. And I just try to keep that in mind, to keep people entertained.

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

My role as an artist is not to make changes [in society] but to inspire changes.

I'm just happy I got to express who I am as an artist and touch people's hearts.

It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening.

I try to make work about things that matter.

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

My own belief is that rather than getting involved in trying to change the reality of social-political things, creators can be involved in and express in different ways and be meaningful in different ways, so for me, it's important to leave messages to people of the future and to be engaged with the people now.